15 responses to “Live free, die hard, evade taxes”

They’re asking a simple question: they would like to see the statute that establishes an income tax.

There isn’t one.

The Sixteenth Amendment established the government *could* directly tax people with no regard for proportionality, and while there are some cases where the Supreme Court seems to say that this did not give the government any new tax authority, those statements are highly qualified. Lower courts have said that the 16th Amendment established an income tax, but that’s not true either.

No one, no Congressman (ask Ron Paul), no lawyer, no IRS agent, no Treasury Secretary, has ever been able to point to a USC statute and say “here’s the tax code”.

It doesn’t exist. The Browns have said that as soon as someone shows them the statute, they’ll pay up, and if I’m not mistaken, have put their tax money into an escrow account (at least that’s what I’ve heard), so they seem legitimate about this.

Here’s a link to America Freedom to Fascism on google video. It talks about the income tax issues. Basically you have to pay taxes because if you don’t, big men with guns bust into your house and take your shit.

Income tax is totally backwards. It’s not a law that’s enforced, it’s enforcement that sorta became law.

One of these “tax protesters” shot our local county clerk, Karen Matthews, after she refused to file one of their bogus liens. His family stalked her, broke into her house and the shot her.

“October 14, California: Four members of the tax protest group Juris Christian Assembly –Roger Knight, George Reed, Terry Ingram and Janice Mallen–are sentenced to terms ranging from home confinement for six months up to a 70 month prison sentence for their role in assaulting Stanislaus County Clerk-Recorder Karen Mathews. Mathews had refused to file their bogus legal documents.”